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Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by rahen »

xrayarx wrote: post #4

for Windows, Linux and Mac OS Derivative of lite editor Plugins Lightweight: We are currently around 3MB in size and takes about 10MB in RAM (can be lower). The whole thing is just Lua running on a rendering engine.

> What does lightweight mean?

It would traditionally mean a program running as little code as possible (dependencies included) for a given task, instead of relying on piles of pre-made libraries and frameworks, which obviously creep way more features than required.

However in this day and age, lightweight usually means it's not based on a web engine, although quite often it could still be huge and needlessly complex.

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Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by d3nj4l »

rahen wrote: post #7
xrayarx wrote: post #4

for Windows, Linux and Mac OS Derivative of lite editor Plugins Lightweight: We are currently around 3MB in size and takes about 10MB in RAM (can be lower). The whole thing is just Lua running on a rendering engine.

> What does lightweight mean? It would traditionally mean a program running as little code as possible (dependencies included) for a given task, instead of relying on piles of pre-made libraries and frameworks, which obviously creep way more features than required. However in this day and age, lightweight usually means it's not based on a web engine, although quite often it could still be huge and needlessly complex.…

How was the post edited in 10 minutes?
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